ON THIS DAY IN 1843, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “It has been ascertained that there will be room on the Bunker Hill Monumental Square for at least eighty thousand people, besides those who are ...

The federal holiday, celebrated on June 19, is embraced as a nationwide celebration of Black history. Here’s how and where to partake. By Nia Decaille On June 19, 1865, a Union general informed ...

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people found out they had been freed. Long a holiday in the Black community and now ...

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Jun. 19, marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free. Black Americans have long ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1905, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Mayor [George] McClellan has issued orders that the flags shall fly from the City Hall on Wednesday, June 14, in observance of Flag Day, the ...

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, commemorates the delayed arrival of the Emancipation Proclamation news to enslaved people in Texas in 1865. While a significant step, the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

A detail of June 11, 1858, correspondence from Abraham Lincoln to Chicago Tribune Publisher Joseph Medill at the Col. R. R. McCormick Research Center First Division Museum at Cantigny Park in Wheaton ...

This year’s 36th anniversary commemorations of the June 4 crackdown were marked by intense, AI-aided censorship on the Chinese internet, muted memorials and arrests in Hong Kong, and a wide variety of ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 19 according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The museum was the gift of retail titan ...